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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSO_jenifers-cavalry_Leesburg-VA.html
Lieutenant Colonel Walter H. Jenifer commanded the 300-man cavalry force in Colonel Nathan "Shanks" Evan's Confederate brigade. Jenifer had some 70 troopers with him at Ball's Bluff, including portions of the Chesterfield Light Dragoons, the Loudo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSM_8th-virginia-infantry_Leesburg-VA.html
The 8th Virginia Infantry was a local unit made up of six companies from Loudoun, two from Fauquier, and one each from Fairfax and Prince William counties. Commanded by Colonel Eppa Hunton, the Regiment arrived on the field about 12:30 p.m. initia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSG_the-battle-at-balls-bluff_Leesburg-VA.html
On the night of October 20, 1861, a small Federal scouting party crossed the Potomac River from Maryland to determine whether recent troop movements indicated a Confederate withdrawal from Leesburg. Advancing inland from Ball's Bluff, the Federals…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSE_aftermath-of-balls-bluff_Leesburg-VA.html
Ball's Bluff is the only battlefield where on which a United States senator was killed in combat. Edward Dickinson Baker, senator from Oregon, was also a colonel and one of Brig. Gen. Charles Stone's three brigade commanders. Baker was a long-time…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDK_potomac-crossings_Leesburg-VA.html
Here Lee turned east to the Potomac, crossing at White's Ford, September 6, 1862, in his invasion of Maryland. Jubal A. Early, returning from his Washington raid, crossed the river at White's Ford, July 14, 1864.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCW_in-memory-of-richard-owings_Leesburg-VA.html
First native born Methodist local preacher, born November 13, 1738, Baltimore County, Maryland. Died October 7, 1786, Leesburg, Virginia and was buried on this spot.
He was converted under the ministry of Robert Strawbridge and Received on Tri…
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Early Methodism in Leesburg. On this site, deeded in 1766, stood the old Methodist meeting house completed about 1770. Here in 1778 was held the sixth conference of American Methodism and the first in Virginia. In this cemetery in 1786 was buried …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBR_old-stone-church-site_Leesburg-VA.html
One block north on Cornwall Street is the site of the first Methodist-owned property in America. Lot 50 was deeded to the Methodist Society in Leesburg on May 11, 1766. In 1778, the Sixth American Conference of Methodists met there, the first such…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBC_balls-bluff-masked-battery_Leesburg-VA.html
Two hundred yards to your right are the remains of a small earthwork that may have been part of a masked (concealed) battery which played an important role in the Battle of Ball's Bluff on October 21, 1861. The battery commanded the road from Edwa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAO_balls-bluff-masked-battery_Leesburg-VA.html
Nearby is the likely site of the Confederate "masked battery" (concealed artillery) that was an object of Federal concern early in the Civil War. On 21 Oct. 1861, elements of the 13th Mississippi infantry near there engaged 35 horsemen of the 3rd …